rodear
Portuguese, verb/ʁo.deˈa(ʁ)/
rodear is spelled R-O-D-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 53,784th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rodear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to surround; to encircle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “andar em volta de”.
What does rodear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to surround; to encircle
- 2
to move around something
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. andar em volta de 2. não ir direto ao ponto
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rodear
- rodeio first-person present singular
- rodeei first-person preterite singular
- rodeado participle past
- rodeares infinitive second-person singular
- rodearmos first-person infinitive plural
- rodeardes infinitive plural second-person
- rodearem infinitive plural third-person
- rodeando gerund
- rodeados masculine participle past
- rodeada feminine participle past
- rodeadas feminine participle past
- rodeias indicative present second-person
- rodeia indicative present singular
- rodeamos first-person indicative plural
- rodeais indicative plural present
- rodeiam indicative plural present
- rodeava first-person imperfect indicative
- rodeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rodear?
- Brazil /ʁo.deˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ho.deˈa(h)]
- /ʁo.deˈa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rodear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rodear in Portuguese?
rodear appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).